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Strengthening Digital Governance & AI-Informed Leadership in the Nonprofit Sector

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🌈 Program Overview

The QT Leaders Nonprofit: Digital Futures Program is a national leadership and digital transformation initiative for nonprofit leaders across Canada.

This program supports leaders navigating AI integration, digital governance, and organizational change while centering inclusive, values-aligned leadership practices. Through facilitated virtual and in-person roundtables, participants engage in structured peer dialogue, applied practice, and ecosystem knowledge sharing.

The result: practical tools, case studies, and decision-making frameworks that strengthen both individual organizations and the broader nonprofit sector.

QueerTech has received funding through RBC's approach to helping strengthen the capacity of Canada's nonprofit sector.

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Next Event: https://community.queertech.org/networks/events/245275 on May 28, 2026

In this session, we will bring together participants across Product Development, HR, and Nonprofit contexts to explore:

✨ How AI is currently impacting their work

✨ Key risks, challenges, and decision tensions that may lead to unintended biases and harm

✨ Differences and misalignments in how AI is understood and applied

✨ What shared frameworks for inclusive AI could look like in practice

✨ Immediate insights and actions to bring back to their organization

🎯 Purpose & Outcomes

Why This Program Exists

Nonprofit leaders are needing to navigate increasing technological complexity with limited resources, rising demand, and heightened accountability.

This program exists to create a structured, peer-based space where leaders can:

• Assess digital and AI readiness
• Validate potential tools or use cases responsibly
• Implement changes aligned with mission, governance, and community trust
• Strengthen leadership resilience under technological pressure

Outcomes

Throughout the program, participants will be able to:

• Apply inclusive leadership frameworks to AI and digital decisions
• Assess, validate, and responsibly implement AI use cases
• Strengthen organizational data governance and digital readiness
• Translate learning into practical internal tools, frameworks, or decision pathways

👥 Who This Program Is For

Mid-career and senior nonprofit leaders who:

• Hold operational, governance, or strategic decision-making responsibility
• Are navigating AI integration or digital transformation pressures
• Lead community-serving or impact-sector organizations
• Value peer dialogue and ecosystem knowledge sharing
• Seek nonprofit-specific applied tools

⏳ Time Frame

The program runs April–November 2026 and includes 6 touchpoints. While engagement is flexible, we encourage attending an in-person activation as accessible, and 3+ virtual sessions.

Delivery includes:

• 5 Roundtables (90 minutes each)

  Facilitated peer sessions focused on AI assessment, validation, implementation, digital governance, etc.

• **In-person Opportunities

QT Connect Meetups, QT Qonference (QTQ) and in-person activations**

• QTQ (November 18-19)

  Public-facing conversation showcasing collective insights, case studies, and developed frameworks in Toronto.